DM’ing each other doesn’t help anyone else.
I suggest that you post screenshots of your folder structure here, so I can see.
further. exactly which one did you download, which blue button did you click?
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this one does not work as it needs the fftw lib which we dont bundle
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As far as the Calf plugins go, I was totally confused as to go about compiling the plugins on MacOSX, as I am not a programmer and don’t know how to use terminal, I was stuck on even installing homebrew.
However I just found @av500 's earlier post with the zip files of the plugins! Big ups.
For the Argot Lunar - I can’t seem to find the .lv2 files from the zip or tar. Am I missing something here?
Would you mind sharing that link/post? I’m aware I could find it myself but it may make it easier for other folks browsing this forum.
It is on this thread from March.
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Curious if anyone has favorite compressors for drums (stereo buss or individual mono), bass and/or master buss.
The plugins I currently use for drums on the S2400 are:
Airwindows DrumSlam
A hint of reverb
Inphonik RX950
I’ve been bouncing around different reverbs and recently just landed on one, but I don’t know the name off the top of my head. I use just enough to get a touch of decay to my individually-chopped drum hits.
In addition, all my drums also go through my Analog Heat. I recently messed around with running them through an outboard hardware compressor (an RNC1773) , but I don’t think I really need it with everything else I’m doing. The combination of DrumSlam, reverb-whose-name-I-can’t-remember, RX950, and the Analog Heat make even wimpy drum breaks hit hard and sound bigger.
I was really happy with the sound I was getting prior to using the RX950 plugin, but adding that to the mix made a huge difference. The filter and saturation lets me quickly shape the sound.
Note that I’m also sampling drums in at 45 and pitching them down six semitones to get extra crunch. I’m also running my drums through the anti-aliasing filter on output 4, which further shapes the sound. I like my drums large, gritty, and raw.
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Questions for @bradholland and the crew: would this plugin work with the DSP Card? It’s called Flechtwerk (sp?) and is a free, Linux friendly port of the Mutable Instruments Plaits oscillator:
Link here. If this works, it would blow the S2400 into space.
no, they do not ship an AARCH64 ARM plugin
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Sorry, I’m fairly new to the DSP Card world, what are the hard limits on what can/cannot be loaded and used? Is there a specific format? I couldn’t find it in the manuals.
Analog Heat… all I keep hearing is amazing things about it… then I see the price tag…
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indeed the manual only states: “…Linux powered by a 64-Bit Quad-core ARM processor…”, but that means that the binary format of the plugins has to be aarch64 (the 64-bit version of the ARM CPU family) Note that Apple also uses 64-bit ARM, but they have a different binary format and a totally different OS environment, so you need the Linux version of the plugin.
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I think I initially tried the Analog Heat at the Elektron booth at Knobcon back in 2019. It was my favorite thing I messed around with at the show, but the $800 pricetag (this was for the mk2) was super hard to justify.
It stuck with me, though, and during 2020 my family was largely homebound, so our savings really started adding up. As a result, my wife was cool letting me buy it. Once I started messing around with it, I immediately regretted not buying the Analog Heat earlier.
Now others’ mileage will certainly vary, but for what I’m interested in it really helped me get a lot closer to the sound I have in my head. All of my drums go through it, and I mixed my last two releases (made on an MPC X) through it for some extra oomph and grit. I only use the most barebones functionality in it—distortion, EQ, and filter—but it’s worth every penny for me. If I had a fire and could only grab one thing it would by my S2400. If I could grab a second thing, it would be the Heat.
I still need to take some time to dial in stereo bus settings for the material I’m writing on the S2400, which is already pretty gritty working in Classic mode, but I did dial in a new preset for the 2400’s drums, and it’s a night-and-day difference.
It is insanely expensive, though, and I imagine that a lot of people would feel it isn’t worth the money for their material (though now that they’ve added effects to the new version, it has more utility). Certainly if someone is using drums from drum packs that someone else already treated, they might get into diminishing returns very quickly. For someone like me, though, who likes everything raw and is chopping up breaks from records into individual hits and then sequencing them into new beats, using the Analog Heat and a touch of reverb makes even the wimpiest breaks sound good. Throw a little RX950 on the drum bus and you’re really off to the races.
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The manual also states that it works with VST3 - how does that figure in?
Sorry for being so green.
VST3 is a plugin format, its does not say anything about the CPU architecture the plugin was compiled for
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So that means VST that are compiled for the correct CPU architecture can work? Or would they all need to be ported? Is that something one could ask a plugin manufacturer for?
yes, you can ask the plugin maker to compile for Linux/aarch64
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Sorry to ask an obvious question but how do I actually play one of the synth / soundfont plugins once they are on the DSP card. My midi-keyboard works fine on the midi-bank channels but I can’t make any of the instruments plug-ins make any sound.
I’m sure this is obviousl but please help me!
Load a plugin to a DSP bus.
They receive MIDI tracks numbered by which DSP bus it is.
If you load a plugin to DSP bus 1 or 1+2 then it will be midi channel 1
create a midi track (bank+5) set it’s output to the correct midi channel and make sure you have the correct MIDI I/O setup in track settings and further upstream in your settings/synchronization screens.
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